How To Be A Man

How to be a Man. When Carlyle was asked by a young person to point out what course of reading he thought best to make him a man, replied in his characteristic manner - "It is not books alone, or by books chiefly that is in all points n man. Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in your actual situation, then and now, you find either expressly or tacitly laid down to your charge - that is, you post ; stand in it like a true soldier. Silently devour the many chagrins of it, as all situations have many, and see you aim not to quit it, with out doing all that is at least required of you. - A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading. There are a growing kind of men that wisely combine the two things - wisely, valiantly, can do what is laid to their hand in the present sphere and prepare themselves withal for doing other wider things, if such be before them."